Feb 10th, 2014 - 2.docx

Feb 10 , 2014
Midterm: identify, scene, iconography, techniques
Paolo Uccello, perspective study of a chalice, pen and ink, c. 1430-40, Florence,
Uffizi (11.2)
· What we see broken down into geometric perspective
Uccello, battle of san Romano, panel, c.1435-60, London, national gallery (11.7)
· Three battle scenes depicted, used to be in Medici palace
· Episode in history
· Orthogonals created from debris from the battle
· Knew how to depict near and far but not the middle, didn’t know how to
transition (like curtain in FraAngelico’s work)
· Dramatic gesture but not the action, figures not placed logically in space
· Painted to look like a tapestry, more lux